
University Recruiter
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What you need
- 4+ yrs full-cycle recruiting experience
- University, campus, intern or early-career hiring
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- Strong organizational mindset for high-volume, high-pressure role
What you'll do
- Own full-cycle early career recruiting from sourcing to closing
- Partner with leaders on workforce planning, hiring strategy, evaluation
- Plan campus programming: talks, hackathons, interviews, VIP events
- Build talent brand and uncover hidden superstar talent
Each year, Perplexity hires an exceptional cohort of early career talent to join our technical team. We’re looking for a University Recruiter to architect our early career programs and shape our strategy for attracting and evaluating the world’s most elite early-career talent.
This is a full-stack role where you’ll be responsible for all aspects of campus lifecycle recruiting: building relationships with external organizations, driving partnerships with internal stakeholders, and running full-cycle recruiting for all candidates. You’ll enjoy incredible latitude to design our programs and candidate experiences end-to-end, along with high-taste playbooks for how we bring the best and brightest to Perplexity.
What You’ll Do
Own full-cycle recruiting process for all early career candidates from sourcing to closing.
Partner closely with leaders at Perplexity on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and candidate evaluation.
Build and scale a strategy that goes far beyond the usual playbooks. Explore creative, unconventional ways to build a talent brand and foster relationships that help uncover hidden superstar talent.
Plan and execute campus programming including but not limited to technical talks, coding competitions and hackathons, on-campus interviews, and VIP events.
What You Bring
4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience owning university, campus, intern or early-career hiring.
Strong organizational mindset–this role is high volume and pressure, juggling multiple workstreams and candidates that you’ll have to manage.
Willingness to travel up to 25%, concentrated during fall and spring recruiting seasons.
Nice to Have
Existing relationships with top CS, ML and engineering programs, research labs or competitive programming communities (ICPC, USACO, etc.).
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About Perplexity
Perplexity is building the most powerful answer engine — powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. Their AI-powered search platform provides accurate, cited answers to complex questions.
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